Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1998: ENV/1999/1: Page 12

Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1998: ENV/1999/1

8. Location of derelict land

8.1 The survey covers derelict land in both urban and rural areas. Table 14 shows the urban rural split of derelict land by council.

Table 14:

Location of derelict land by local authority area, 1998¹

Local Authority	Urban				Rural				All Derelict Land
Local Authority	Area (ha)	%	No. of Sites	%	Area (ha)	%	No. of Sites	%	Area (ha)	No. of Sites
Aberdeen City	33	43	27	77	44	57	8	23	77	35
Aberdeenshire²	10	10	19	66	84	90	10	34	93	29
Angus	22	7	13	28	317	93	34	72	339	47
Argyll & Bute	11	63	14	67	6	37	7	33	17	21
Clackmannanshire	26	72	14	88	10	28	2	13	36	16
Dumfries & Galloway	23	8	22	63	282	92	13	37	305	35
Dundee City²	70	99	29	97	1	1	1	3	71	30
East Ayrshire	68	15	52	54	385	85	45	46	453	97
East Dunbartonshire	54	81	16	76	12	19	5	24	66	21
East Lothian	11	6	11	41	186	94	16	59	197	27
East Renfrewshire	15	100	2	100	-	-	-	-	15	2
Edinburgh, City of	70	88	25	93	10	12	2	7	80	27
Eilean Siar	1	100	2	100	-	-	-	-	1	2
Falkirk	52	48	34	68	58	52	16	32	110	50
Fife²	257	32	86	81	540	68	20	19	797	106
Glasgow City	883	100	291	100	-	-	-	-	883	291
Highland	244	77	171	73	72	23	62	27	315	233
Inverclyde	71	98	46	98	1	2	1	2	72	47
Midlothian	94	28	49	45	238	72	59	55	332	108
Moray	32	92	32	89	3	8	4	11	34	36
North Ayrshire	168	73	58	64	62	27	32	36	230	90
North Lanarkshire²	835	60	139	32	550	40	290	68	1,385	429
Orkney Islands	1	9	6	40	11	91	9	60	12	15
Perthshire & Kinross	43	50	18	78	43	50	5	22	86	23
Renfrewshire	64	26	45	94	180	74	3	6	244	48
Scottish Borders	27	50	44	83	27	50	9	17	55	53
Shetland Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Ayrshire²	14	50	14	78	14	50	4	22	28	18
South Lanarkshire²	270	62	96	75	169	38	32	25	439	128
Stirling	77	64	10	53	43	36	9	47	120	19
West Dunbartonshire	108	97	38	97	4	3	1	3	112	39
West Lothian	155	20	26	27	607	80	70	73	762	96
Scotland	3,809	49	1,449	65	3,959	51	769	35	7,768	2,218

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.

2 For 10 sites, the distinction between urban and rural is unspecified. There is one in Aberdeenshire (0.41 ha), two in Dundee (4.89 ha in total), two in Fife (0.90 ha in total), two in North Lanarkshire (0.75 ha in total), one in South Ayrshire (0.32 ha) and two in South Lanarkshire (17.92 ha in total).

8.2 The authorities with the highest levels of urban derelict land in 1998 were Glasgow (883 hectares), North Lanarkshire (835 hectares) and South Lanarkshire (270 hectares). While the authorities with the highest levels of rural derelict land were West Lothian (607 hectares), North Lanarkshire (550 hectares), Fife (540 hectares) and East Ayrshire (385 hectares). The table also shows the split for total area and number of sites for each council, these imply that on average urban sites are smaller than rural sites, for example in Scotland, 49 per cent of derelict land is urban, while 65 per cent of derelict sites are urban.